June Chase's 1850s Notebook / Sketchbook, Boston MA british cartoon To my eye a very

To my eye a very special feeling thing--the lightly encrusted glass a pale green with lots of tiny tiny air bubbles visible

3 1/8" long x 1 1/8" wide x just shy of 1 1/2" tall

just minor surface wear here and there

and I think there's a black sheep too

the bright blue ground

June Chase's 1850s Notebook / Sketchbook, Boston MA british cartoon To my eye a veryWhile some of the graphite drawings in it show some smudging and softening no great surprise, being 170 or so years old this, I think, is quite a marvelous thing, both as a document of pre Civil War, 2nd Great Awakening era New England, and for the drawings themselves. It appears to have been the notebook of a June Chase of Boston, MA, who I believe was a member of the Chase family of New England, descending from early American settlers Aquila Chase